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AFI picks best TV, films of 2013

"Breaking Bad"

The AMC drama about a high school chemistry teacher-turned-drug baron was one of the recipients of the American Film Institute's annual list of Top 10 Television programs of 2013, announced on Monday, December 9, along with the AFI Award winners for the top 10 films of the year.

Credit: AMC

"The Americans"

Left: Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play Soviet-era KGB agents clandestinely living in the U.S. suburbs in "The Americans."

Each year, the AFI Awards honor 10
outstanding films and 10 outstanding television programs deemed to be culturally
and artistically representative of the year's most significant achievements.

The awards jury consists of AFI members
and trustees, scholars, film and television artists, and critics.

Credit: FX

"Game of Thrones"

"Game of Thrones," the fantasy series based on George R.R. Martin's novels of political intrigue and warfare, received a total of 16 Emmy nominations this year (including for actors Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke), and won 9 Emmys.

Credit: HBO

"The Good Wife"

Julianna Margulies (with Amanda Peet, right) in a scene from "The Good Wife."

Credit: CBS

"House of Cards"

Kevin Spacey as Congressman Frank Underwood in a scene from the Netflix original series, "House of Cards."

Credit: Netflix

"Mad Men"

Jon Hamm plays ad man Don Draper in the period drama, "Mad Men."

Credit: AMC

"Masters of Sex"

Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan star as Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, researchers who created a firestorm with their study of human sexuality, in the Showtime series, "Masters of Sex."

Credit: Showtime

"Orange Is the New Black"

Based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, "Orange Is the New Black" stars Taylor Schilling as a woman incarcerated for transporting drug funds.

"Captain Phillips"

Tom Hanks plays the captain of a freighter overtaken by Somali pirates in "Captain Phillips," based on the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama.

Credit: Columbia Pictures

"Fruitvale Station"

Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant, the victim of a police shooting at an Oakland BART station, in the real-life drama, "Fruitvale Station."

Credit: Weinstein Company

"Gravity"

Sandra Bullock stars as an astronaut stranded in Earth orbit following the catastrophic destruction of the space shuttle, in the 3-D spectacle, "Gravity."

Credit: Warner Brothers

"Her"

My best girl's in my pocket: Joaquin Phoenix carries his operating system to the beach in "Her," a futuristic romance about a man's love for his computer, written and directed by Spike Jonze ("Being John Malkovich").

Credit: Warner Brothers

"Inside Llewyn Davis"

Oscar Isaac stars in "Inside Llewyn Davis," the Coen Brothers' evocative tale of a struggling folk singer in the early 1960s.

Credit: CBS Films

"Nebraska"

Bruce Dern (left, with Will Forte) plays a crochety old man determined to travel across several states to collect a sweepstakes prize he thinks he's won, in the comedy-drama, "Nebraska," from director Alexander Payne ("The Descendants").

Credit: Paramount Vantage

"Saving Mr. Banks"

Tom Hanks stars as Walt Disney, trying to convince T.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to allow his studio to turn her novel "Mary Poppins" into a movie, in "Saving Mr. Banks."

Credit: Walt Disney Company

"The Wolf of Wall Street"

Leonard diCaprio stars as real-life Wall Street broker Jordan Belfort, whose memoir charted his spectacular rise and fall living a high-flying lifestyle that was in no way legal, in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street."